[Crisis of medicine and information]

Western medicine is experiencing a period of crisis, which started in the middle of the twentieth century. Such crisis comes from three different directions: the lack of confidence in the capacity of physicians to solve medical problems; the difficulties in health system management, due to the need to find an equilibrium between costs and benefits; the physicians increasing specialization. Correct information and divulgation, together with evidence based medicine, represent possible ways to ameliorate this situation.